Projects
Projects are proposed actions analyzed through the NEPA process (environmental impact statements, environmental assessments, or categorical exclusions that result in a record of decision (ROD), decision notice (DN), or decision memo (DM), before they are ultimately implemented. You'll find the projects listed with project information and a contact person for each project, as well as options on the right hand column to submit official comments, read public comments, project navigation, etc., after clicking on the project you are interested in. There is also a link to sign up for 'govdelivery' so that you receive an email notification for either specific projects or all projects on the BDNF.
Beal Mountain Mine Closure
The USDA Forest Service will conduct response actions at the Beal Mountain Mine Site located in Silver Bow County, Montana, through the agency’s delegated authority (Executive Order 12580) under the Comprehensive, Environmental, Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). View Beal Mountain Mine Closure Project
Status of Forest Projects
Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA)
You can view Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF SOPA reports in PDF or HTM formats, or you can search for other forest's SOPA reports on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge page at the SOPA web site.
Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Current and Recent Projects
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Basin Cataract Buttermilk Fuel Breaks
The project proposes to reduce wildfire risk to communities, infrastructure, and ecosystems in the path of potential, future wildfires. The Buttermilk Fuel Break is southwest of the town of Boulder, MT and other fuel break is north of Basin, MT.
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Basin Creek - Butte Watershed Project
The project is to protect the Basin Creek Municipal Watershed by restoring and improving the characteristics of forest composition and structure to help reduce the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire effects.
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Basin Water Collection Project
The project is to improve existing water sources for livestock aiming to encourage pasture utilization. The spring within the site has been drying out for years, resulting in livestock concentrating in riparian areas.
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BDNF Aspen Project
Increase aspen component in places where assessment indicates a need and conditions are favorable to support aspen using a variety of treatments.
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Beal Private Road Permit
The project is to provide reasonable access to a landlocked parcel owned by Fred Beal. The road will provide a route across forest land for the landowner to construct a cabin on private land and provide motorized access.
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Beaverhead-Deerlodge Outfitter & Guide Permits
This analysis is to determine whether increasing service days for commercial outfitters and guides on National Forest System (NFS) lands may significantly affect the quality of the human environment.
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Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative Fiber Optic Phase 3- Discovery Ski Basin
The project proposes Blackfoot Telephone Cooperative (BTC) to obtain an amendment to PIN21007 special use permit, for Phase 3, to plow/bury fiber optic cables from Echo Lake to the top of Discovery Ski Basin, Rumsey Mountain Communication Site.
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Cliff and Wade Improvements
The Forest Service proposes to create safe functional parking and traffic flow as well as a centralized host site to allow for effective recreation site management at Cliff Lake and Wade Lake.
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Darkhorse Road Crossing
Proposal to replace the crossing of Forest Service Road 381 over Darkhorse Creek to improve stream habitat, fish passage, public safety, and infrastructure resilience.
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Fleecer Water Collection Project
The project will install a collection mat and storage tank and plumb it into the existing water trough to help augment the water that is produced at the spring source.
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Georgetown Fuel Break
To respond to the wildfire crisis, the project proposes to reduce potential wildfire threat to nearby communities and critical infrastructure. The fuel break runs east to west along the front country of the Anaconda Pintler Wilderness.
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Georgetown Lake Trails
This project is needed to improve trail conditions around the popular Georgetown Lake area. Trail work expected is a combination of winter cross-country skiing, hiking, biking, and ATV trail.
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Greenhorn Vegetation Project
The proposed project is to help restore and maintain the structure, function, composition and ecological connectivity of the forest system in order to increase resiliency to future natural disturbance events like wildfire, insects, and disease.
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Guiding Light Private Access Road Permit
Guiding Light Land, LLC requests to construct and maintain a 0.13 mile private access road across National Forest System (NFS) lands to provide ingress and egress for the inholding.
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Holland Ranch Grazing Permit
Project to issue new permit with construction of corral facilities to improve safety in trailing cattle between pastures.
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Lion's Den Parking Expansion
This project proposes to expand the popular Lion's Den Parking in Thompson Park to help address the overflow parking onto the shoulder of Montana Highway 2.
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Meadow Creek Improvements
The purpose of the fencing projects is to improve cattle distribution and forage utilization by increasing the ability to control cattle movement as well as to exclude cattle along Meadow Creek near the bridge in the Blue Grotto Pasture.
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Powder Gulch Quarry Expansion
The Madison District proposes to expand the existing Powder Gulch Gravel Pit by 5 acres for Forest Service and Madison County road maintenance in the Ruby River and neighboring drainages.
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Selway Saginaw Vegetation Management Project
Project to move conditions toward Forest Plan Timber, Vegetation, and Fuel Management Goals and Objectives using commercial timber harvest, precommercial thinning, and conifer expansion treatments.
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South Fork Jack Creek Headgate and Ditch
Proposal from Cedar Lake Irrigation Association to access their point of diversion on the South Fork of Jack Creek to install a new headgate, clean the culvert, manipulate the stream channel, and clear sediment and debris from the irrigation ditch.
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South Meadow Creek Trail
The project proposes to reroute existing trail, build new trail to connect a trail loop, and decommission portions of trail that are not up to forest standards.
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South Tobacco Roots Vegetation Management Project
This project is being developed to treat vegetation in the project area by reducing hazardous fuels, commercial timber harvest, and thinning stands using non-commercial methods.
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Strawberry to Cascade Allotment Management Plan
Revise as necessary grazing management on the Barnett, Black Butte, Coal Creek, Cottonwood, Fossil, Hellroaring, Lyon, Wolverine, Poison Basin and portions of the Upper Ruby allotments in the Gravelly Mountains.
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Tendoy Project
The BLM Dillon Field Office and Dillon Ranger District are starting the Environmental Assessment(EA) on Applications for Permit to Drill, submitted by the Lima Exploration Company, LLC.
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Trapper Creek Fish Barrier
Establish fish barrier in Trapper Creek constructed with lumber, fill, rip-rap and concrete for the conservation of Westslope Cutthroat Trout. An excavator will be used for site preparation and barrier construction.
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Water Gulch Fence Relocation
The project moves a fence between two range pastures that currently lies within an increasingly popular, dispersed camp site. By moving the fence away from the recreation site, it should reduce the amount of recreation and livestock conflicts.
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West Fork Buttes Corral Project
Proposal to authorize permittee to construct 100 feet by 100 feet wooden or metal corral to temporarily hold cattle while finalizing allotment cleanup
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Whitetail Reservoir Riparian Exclosure
The project proposes fence improvements within the Whitetail Reservoir Exclosure and is also part of the South Pony grazing allotment. There is a need to limit unauthorized routes adjacent to FSR 8695 that have been created within the riparian area.
Project Archive
Some of our older projects can be accessed in our Project Archive.